Hospitals in Philadelphia on opposite ends of spectrum when it comes to charity care | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania is located just five miles from Temple University Hospital. But data from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council show that the two hospitals provide very different levels of charity care to the poor.
Medical District plans to pay workers to live near their jobs | (Memphis, Tenn.) Commercial Appeal
A handful of people will be offered grants to move closer to their jobs. It's a key trial by the Memphis Medical District Collaborative, a new alliance of the city's household names in healthcare.
MGH solidifies plans to acquire New Hampshire hospital | Boston Business Journal
Massachusetts General Hospital has solidified plans to acquire New Hampshire-based Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, with both hospitals signing an agreement this month.
Medicaid to begin paying Alabama doctors less | Florence (Ala.) Times Daily
A 30% cut to Medicaid reimbursement rates for pediatricians and some other primary-care providers around the state of Alabama is a result of a funding shortfall for Medicaid, which serves more than 1 million low-income Alabamians.
Doctors are improperly billing some on Medicare, U.S. says | New York Times
Doctors are improperly billing poor people on Medicare for deductibles, copayments and other costs from which they are supposed to be exempt, the Obama administration says.
Dignity, GoHealth opening 12 Bay Area urgent-care clinics | San Francisco Chronicle
Dignity Health, California's largest private hospital network and one of the largest healthcare systems in the country, is opening the first of 12 Bay Area urgent care clinics it will run with GoHealth Urgent Care, an Atlanta company that operates centers in New York City and Portland, Ore.
